Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-18

agant extent by his comrades, was
somewhat more cautio' IS this time. He
will doubtless feel bad now that he per-
mitted General F drrhi,d 10 distance him
III irothy Vap Jrings, but he will have
SECOND CT -2RGu likely. Sherman will have
" ies ase his speeches in order to ex-
Z 4risee the rebels for attempting to have
another "rising." Fourth of July orations
will End climaxes innumerable in the
various phases of the question and pa
triotic poetasters and literary dilletantes
will find themes for song and story for
brief season, and for brief season only.
The sober second thought of the nation
will readily realize and as readily &C
knowledge that President CleyeIand was
inspired by the purest impulses of pa
triotism in the matter. From the day of
his inauguration until the present time,
every word he uttered and every act per-
formed had the one object, tantsmount to
all others in view, and that was the OBJ
liberation of ell sectional feeling
and the thorough unifcstion of
the country. In these lsudasble
efforts he has sometimes incurred
the censure of his own party friends. He
realizes that he is not only the President
elected by the Democracy Of the country,
but the President of the whole American
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the friendly words of Republican
leaders and the earnest profess
sions of a desire to let the dead
past bury it's dead, and look forward, as
nation, to brighter era of national love
and brotherhood. He doubtless thought,
as any intelligent patriot would natu-
rally think, that boarding in the nations
capital the trophies of war and the sig
nifcant emblems Of strife and blood and
carnage was an insurmountable barrier to
that return of good feeling and oblivion
of the past SO grandiy and eloquently
prayed for by the patriots of both par
ties. he assumed, doubtless, as he had
reason to assume, on the words of north
ern orators, that all was forgotten now
save the valor. the chivalry, the manhood
and self-sacrifce of either side in
that terrible conflict where all were brave
and some victorious, and that the surest
method of perpetuating that feeling of |
national pride in the virtue and prowess
of the country's soldiery was by return
ing to each subdivision that emblem |
which inspired their courage, strength |
ened their hands, and led them on to
fields Of glory and renown, whether those
fields were lost or won. Redistributed |
thus they would no longer be reminders
Of passion and strife, but of the fealty
md faith of Americans to and in their
honest convictions. 1t would be
In act of generosity and magnanimity
which would rebound more to the
,redit end honor of the north
han any victory obtained over
southern troops. The trials and
riumphs of General Grant will be num-
,ered in our country's history as long as
'ur government lasts, but his one act, in
eturning to General Lee the sword that
lad flashed SO often in opposing battle,
will stand forever, alone, the grandest
ct of his life: because it showed that he
vas more than great general; he was a
rue American citizen, who could. be as
generous in victory as he was brave and >,
Ilustrious in battle. President Cleveland
an afford to bide his time and ignore the !
rantiC utteranCes of the Tuttles and Fair t
hilds. The time will come when the
atoms capital will be purged of all !
elics of internecine strife.